On Frank O’Hara and Alfred Leslie’s lamp. Rachel Hurn recalls her first encounter with Eileen Myles’s Chelsea Girls. Kathleen Hanna talked with The Daily Beast. Paper has some zine recommendations for you… …which shares some points of reference with Hyperallergic’s piece on female adolescence. Barbara Bloom was interviewed about her exhibit at the Jewish Museum. Mary Ruefle’s “Lectures I Will Never Give” appears at The Rumpus. Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, Google +, our Tumblr, and sign up for our mailing list.

Reviewed in this edition: What Are You Doing Here? A Black Woman’s Life and Liberation in Heavy Metal by Laina Dawes; Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures by Mary Ruefle; The Bulletproof Coffin by David Hine and Shaky Kane

“This is a book not just for poets but for anyone interested in the human heart, the inner-life, the breath exhaling a completion of an idea that will make you feel changed in some way.” Matthew Dickman on Mary Ruefle’s Madness, Rack, and Honey. Will Sheff makes the case that a televised Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show concert from 1974 is his preferred “cinematic document of a rock and roll band.” Martin Scorsese is making a documentary about the New […]